Step thirteen : Deaths for the County in Pennsylvania where the Immigrant nuclear family lived. Checking Pennsylvania deaths.
If I had not found the naturalization for the 18 year old mentioned in the previous post, I would not have been able to do this next step.
Find A Grave TM is a web site I have very mixed feelings about. People are uploading death certificates and I think that is beyond tacky (defying the sensibility that the dead should be left in peace) but also a total privacy invasion. Sure, if you find out that some relatives of yours posted, you might be able to take it down, but it was up for the world to see, and that is disrespecting the living too.
As previously stated members of this clients family had gone so far in their research and some of the more modern ancestors generations from the immigrant nuclear family from Germany-Prussia, were on Find A Grave TM.
But one thing we should not forget is that Find A Grave is not the end-all. If this were a more modern family who lived at a time, as we do now, where people were forced to have Identification cards, and their birth, marriage, and death, were documented that would be an early research task. But these people lived in the - and the full names of family members did not appear until 1850.
Now that I knew that there was a possibility that the family used a different surname I was able to find the death of the first female immigrant ancestor from Prussia. She was not yet 40 and had died of TB.
TB usually takes some years to kill a person and it gives us the speculation that this hard-working family had a sick wife and mother that required attention.
Hold that thought!
Posts in this series will be brought up using the label PA-GERM research path
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